When the Swampers Session Band left FAME in 1969, they moved into a building at 3614 Jackson Highway. It was...

Quin Ivy was born in Oxford, Mississppi, in 1937. Like Rick Hall, he grew up in a share-cropping family. He...

Willie Mitchell was born William Lawrence Mitchell in 1928 in Ashland, Mississippi. He took up the trumpet at just eight...

Hi Records was set up in Memphis in 1957 by singer Ray Harris, record store owner Joe Cuoghi, two Sun...

In 1973 Allen Toussaint and Marshall Sehorn established the Sea-Saint recording studio in the Gentilly area of eastern New Orleans. Toussaint had originally joined...